I wanted to get a grasp on what does and doesn't work first.
And what queries people have so I can address them all in one post.

But basically, at some point you will have a nice dashboard, so that you can follow posts by users who often post threads that you like to read… we built the function so people could follow writers whose taste they like and bands (we have a few plans related to that) and we realised you could follow users too.